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Outline for a proposed Debian Sprint for debian-embedded and debian-arm in 2010-2011
Organised by Hector Oron and Konstantinos Margaritis
Sponsors
Genesi USA, Inc., Genesi Europe UG (Germany) and Red Efika S. de R. L. de C. V. (Mexico).
If you want to become sponsor or join the session, please contact "Debian contacts" listed on this page
Genesi USA, Inc. will also organize another Debian sprint happening at UIWICC in ?San Antonio, Texas, US.
Scope
Embedded: we care on embedded world, usually platforms with small footprint requirements. Provide and maintain tools within Debian environment to help out developing for such systems: ARM, MIPS, SH4, POWERPC, ... is a goal.
ARM: a messy mix between ABI, architectures, optimized libraries, ... makes it difficult for a distribution like Debian to ship a coherent set of packages for such architecture. One of the goals of the sprint is to clarify some of the issues involved.
Embedded + ARM: is a combo very much exploited in later years for device development and it has a growing community, most of it thanks to mobile companies.
Embedded and ARM Worksession
Dates:
21-25th February 2011
Past Extremadura meeting information at DebianEmbeddedWorkSessionExtremadura2006 and EmdebianWorkSessionExtremadura2008
Organizational Stuff
Where
Travelling details
Participants requesting travel sponsorship, should note sponsorship request in this site and tell local contacts before December 23rd, 2010.
If you are unable to meet the deadline, please let local contacts know about it.
Timetable
23.12.2010 |
Deadline for Attendee list with food preferences |
23.12.2010 |
List of people needing travel sponsorship with full details needed for ticket ordering |
30.1.2011 |
List Arrival/Departure times/flight numbers of those who get the flight tickets themself |
20.2.2011 |
Travel to Venue - (times not yet known) |
21.2.2011 |
First full day. People introduce what they personally want to do/decide here |
... |
Hacking + informal discussion |
... |
Hacking |
24.2.2011 evening |
workshop wrap-up and where to continue at home |
25.2.2011 |
Event over, travel back |
Debian contacts
HectorOron, <zumbi at debian dot org>, ES
Konstantinos Margaritis, <markos at debian dot org>, GR
Accommodation
- There are locals offering crush space.
If you need sponsored accommodation, please contact local contacts before deadline (Dec 23rd)
Local Transport
If you need special transportation, please contact local contacts before deadline (Dec 23rd)
- Cambridge has public transport system by bus.
Food
ARM is also taking care of food (lunch) for the attendees. If somebody have any particular preference/need (like vegans or allergies) please contact the local contacts.
- TCL/Genesi is likely taking care of dinner meals.
Network and work place
- ARM is providing us with workplace and network.
Agenda
Some issues that would be helpful to tackle, please feel free to edit (or append to) this information:
TODO: armhf status and Debian integration into dpkg and lintian
TODO: multiarch support into dpkg
- Discussion: Handling 'flavours' (ISA and optimisation options) (e.g. ARM v5/v6/v7/VFP/Neon, x86 i586/i686/MMX) within Debian (dpkg support, package metadata, partial archives, multilib gcc/install paths, multilib- or flavoured- cross-tools)
- Discussion: Cross compilation environment (cross toolchains and target packages) - bare metal support
- Discussion: Prepare partial architectures within debian-ports.org for later multiarch and/or embedded use
- Discussion: Do we want/need Emdebian/Crush? Do we need uClibc port or optimized EGLIBC port?
- Discussion/TODO: Improve Debian Installer for handling custom kernel + userland on devices
- Discussion: Resources and infrastructure
Discussion: Software integration: looking at MeeGo, Linaro, Yocto,.. and Debian packaging efforts.
Announcements
Attendees
Please add you own name, e-mail address, country (2-letter code) and airport of origin (3 letter code)
The number of attending people is strictly limited to 20 approximately. In case the final count exceeds that number, choices will have to be made, sorry for this.
Flight tickets status
Ie, try survive with just hand luggage!
Probably
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Name |
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From Airport |
Back To Airport |
Arrival |
Departure |
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Mr |
Raphaël Hertzog |
Saint-Etienne |
FR |
LYS |
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Mr |
Marcin Juszkiewicz |
Szczecin |
PL |
SSZ|TXL|SXF |
SSZ|TXL|SXF |
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Sure
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Name |
Town |
Country |
From Airport |
Back To Airport |
Arrival |
Departure |
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Mr |
Hector Oron |
Cambridge |
UK |
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Mr |
Neil Williams |
Cambridge |
UK |
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Mr |
Nick Bane |
Cambridge |
UK |
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Mr |
Wookey |
Cambridge |
UK |
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Mr |
Konstantinos Margaritis |
Nafplion |
GR |
ATH |
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Mr |
Cambridge |
UK |
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Mr |
Luke Leighton |
Staines |
UK |
LHR |
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Mr |
Philip Hands |
London |
UK |
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Mr |
Daniel Silverstone |
Manchester |
UK |
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Mr |
Dave Martin |
UK |
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(1-3 days) |
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Mr |
David Mandala |
Dallas, TX |
US |
LHR |
LHR |
20.2.2011 |
25.2.2011 |
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Mr |
Jonas Smedegaard |
Mørkøv |
DK |
CPH |
CPH |
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Mrs |
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Sure (overseas)
These attendees are located outside Europe and additional funding might be required. So, being listed here is not a promise that you'll be able to come...but accepting to be listed here means to you're OK to come if we can fund you..:-)
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Name |
Town |
Country |
Airport |
Arrival |
Departure |
Family Members and invited people
As long as the *total* amount of people is under XY, family members can too be also accomondated.
List of invited people (waiting confirmation)
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Name |
Status |
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List of family members
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Name |
Status |
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Ms |
Marie Raymond |
lkcl's partner |
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Ms |
Lilyana Leighton |
anything she can type on the keyboard |
lkcl's baby daughter |
Ms |
Siri Reiter |
Jonas' partner |
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Mrs |
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Hardware and interests
Since we are embedded, instead of say, s390, getting target hardware transported is easy. One of the advantages of meeting physically we exploit is meeting with systems you don't deal with usually. putting them in handluggage is good idea
- Hector Oron
- ARM Hardware
- Balloon board, EfikaMX, EfikaSB, Guruplug, Pandaboard, IGEP-v2
- MIPS Hardware
- Lemote netbook
- ARM Hardware
- Luke Leighton
- ARM Hardware
- Beagleboard (OMAP35xx)
- IGEP-v2 (OMAP35xx)
- Beagleboard chinese clone (OMAP35xx)
- ODroid (S5PC100)
- Undisclosed box (ARM926EJ-S)
CT-PC89E Netbook (?S3C6410)
- x86 Hardware (maybe - depends on practicality)
- Dual-core 2ghz Mac (running debian of course)
- sample laptop with RDC x86 clone (IAD100HV). It's a 1ghz single-core Pentium clone but the CPU flags only have fpu and one other flag (sse?) and so anything that's compiled for x86 and assumes MMX exists instantly segfaults. such as qt4's image blitting function, yaay!
- ARM Hardware
- ARM Hardware
- X86 Hardware
- OLPC XO-1